The Meiji Restoration: A Probable In-Take for "Slouching Towards Utopia?: An Economic History of the Long 20th Century"

Starting to be the right way to do this kind of work. But be careful! Active genes that code for melanin are strongly correlated with low educational attainment. Yet I do not believe that even the Charles Murrays and the Andrew Sullivans of the world believe that active melanin production in any way affects "brain-development... and neuron-to-neuron communication": James J. Lee, Robbee Wedow, about 105 others, and David Cesarini: Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals: "A large-scale genetic association analysis of educational attainment... 1.1 million individuals... 1,271 independent genome-wide-significant [Single nucleotide polymorphisms]...

...For the SNPs taken together, we found evidence of heterogeneous effects across environments. The SNPs implicate genes involved in brain-development processes and neuron-to-neuron communication. In a separate analysis of the X chromosome, we identify 10 independent genome-wide-significant SNPs and estimate a SNP heritability of around 0.3% in both men and women, consistent with partial dosage compensation. A joint (multi-phenotype) analysis of educational attainment and three related cognitive phenotypes generates polygenic scores that explain 11–13% of the variance in educational attainment and 7–10% of the variance in cognitive performance. This prediction accuracy substantially increases the utility of polygenic scores as tools in research...


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